Night Crossing, by Karen Ackerman
Clara and her family flee Austria over the mountains into Switzerland to escape Nazi persecution.

Susanna's Candlestick, by Lillie Albrecht
Susanna carries her keepsake candlestick through a long rough journey to New England in 1663.

The Spinning Wheel Secret, by Lillie Albrecht
In colonial days girls were restricted to activities like knitting and spinning, but Joan Tower was a little unusual in that she hated these tasks. She would rather romp with the boys.

Hard Times, A Story of the Great Depression, by Nancy Antle (54 p.)
During the Great Depression, Charlie's father loses his job and can't pay the mortgage. The family must move to a new home.

Journey to Nowhere, by Mary Jane Auch
In the spring of 1815, Mem becomes separated from her family when they travel from their comfortable farm in Connecticut to the wilderness of western New York. After being reunited with her family, she almost loses them in a flood.

Charley Skedaddle, by Patricia Beatty
During the Civil War, a twelve-year old Bowery boy from New York City joins the Union Army as a drummer, deserts during a battle in Virginia, and encounters a hostile old mountain woman.

Eben Tyne, Powdermonkey, by Patricia Beatty (YA)
A thirteen-year old powdermonkey in the Confederate navy joins the crew of the Ironclad Merrimack in a mission to break the Union blockade of Norfolk harbor.

Jayhawker, by Patricia Beatty (214 p.)
A teenage Kansas farm boy becomes a Jayhawker, an abolitionist raider freeing slaves from the neighboring state of Missouri. He then goes undercover as a spy.

Who Comes with Cannons, by Patricia Beatty
In 1861, a 12-year old Quaker girl from Indiana, is staying with relatives who run a North Carolina station of the Underground Railroad. The coming of the Civil War changes her life.

Jersey Rebel, by Kensil Bell
General Howe's army could be shaken into surrender in occupied Philadelphia in 1777. Across the Delaware River, in New Jersey, lived fourteen-year old Jeff Lundy, who gets caught up in the fight for Independence.

Silent Stranger, by Amanda Benton (YA)
A stranger comes to Jessica's house while the War of 1812 is being fought on the western frontier of New York State. The stranger looks old enough to be a soldier. Jessica comes to his defense when the stranger is taunted by a local bully. What is the stranger's past?

Reluctant Hero, by Philip Brady (154 p.)
Cutting Favour, 13 years-old, is caught in a fearsome blizzard as he journeys for the first time away from home, to obtain food for the family.

Toad on Capitol Hill, by Esther Brady (138 p.)
Dorsy McCurdy is not too happy when her new stepbrother from Philadelphia slaps her in the face with a dead fish. Delia the cook tells her that she must get along with them. The story takes place during the War of 1812.

Ruthie's Gift, by Kimberly Bradley (150 p.)
The story of 8 year-old ruthie is set in a cozy Indiana farming community at the start of World War I. Ruthie, who has six brothers, wishes for a baby sister.

Arrow Over the Door, by Joseph Bruchac (89 p.)
Summer of 1777 is a time of war, however, 14-year old Samuel Russell is called "coward" for his peace-loving Quaker beliefs. The British army is approaching his homne at Saratoga.

The Black Bonnet, by Louella Bryant (150 p.)
Twelve-year old Charity and her sixteen year-old sister Bea encounter perils along the Underground Railroad as they make their escape from slavery in Virginia in the last 1850s.

Spying on Miss Muller, by Eve Bunting (179 p.)
Jessie attends a boarding school in Belfast at the start of World War II. She must deal with her suspicions about a teacher whose father was a German and who could be a Nazi agent. She also worries about her own father's drinking problem.

With Every Drop of Blood, by James Lincoln Collier
14-year old Johnny is captured by a black Union soldier after trying to bring food to Richmond, Virginia, during the Civil War.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter, by Caroline Cooney (YA) (249 p.) (2001)
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by the Mohawk Indians and their French allies. They are forced to march in the bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some hope to be ransomed.

Dark Shade, by Jane Curry (168 p.) (YA)
Time travel story in which a shy sixteen-year old Maggie Gilmour and an orphaned teen Kip MacLean visit Pennsylvania in 1758. Maggie trys to save Kip from abandoning the present and interfering with the events of history. A gripping story, which moves back and forth between present and past, portrays an authentic picture of the Lenape Indians.

Play to the the Angel, by Maurine Dahlberg (185 p.)
Set in Vienna in 1938, in the shadow of an increasingly dangerous Nazi Germany, twelve-year old Greta pursues her dream of becoming a concert pianist like her dead brother Kurt, despite a lack of support from her widowed mother.

Journal of William Thomas Emerson, by Barry Denenberg(156 p.) (Dear America 1774)
This is the journal of Will, a revolutionary war patriot.

Wildflower, by Marita Conlon-McKenna (173 p.)
In Ireland, in the 1850s, 13 year-old Peggy O'Driscoll cannot find work in her small home town. She sets off on terrying sea voyage to America.

So Far From Home, by Barry Denenberg (166 pages)
This the diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill girl from Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1847.

One Eye Laughing, by Barry Denenberg (250 pages)
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.

Children of Bach, by Eilos Dillon (164 p.)
A Hungarian Jewish family of talented musicians escapes Nazi persecution.

Island Far From Home, by John Donahue (179 p.)
A 12 year-old son of a Union army doctor killed during the battle of Fredricksburg, comes to understand the meaning of war. He also learns the fine line between friends and enemies when he begins correspondence with a young confederate prisoner of war.

Jacob's Rescue, by Malka Drucker (117 p.)
Based on a true story, a man recalls the terrifying years of his childhood when a brave Polish couple hid him and other Jewish children from the Nazis.

Betsy Zane, by Lynda Durrant (198 p.)
In 1781 twelve-year old Elizabeth Zane, great-great aunt of novelist Zane Grey, leaves Philadelphia to return to her brothers' homestead near Fort Henry in what is now West Virginia, where she plays an important role in the final battle of the American Revolution.

Bull Run, by Paul Fleischman (104 p.)
The glory, horror and disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War are described by both sides.

Path of the Pale, Horse by Paul Fleischman (YA)
Lep, an doctor's apprentice, assists his master in treating victims of yellow fever in Philadelphia during the epidemic of 1793.

Becca's Story, by James D. Forman (180 p.) (YA)
This Civil War romance concerns a Michigan girl and the two soldiers who fight for her hand.

A Line in the Sand, by Sherry Garland (Dear America)
In the journal she receives for her twelfth birthday in 1835, Lucinda Lawrence describes the hardships her family and other residents of "Texas colonies" endure when they decide to face the Mexicans in a fight for their freedom.

Edge of Darkness, by Lynne Gessner179 p.
Latvian farm family during World War II. The family is subjected to Nazi occupation with deprivations, cruelty and injstice almost beyond endurance

Turncoat Winter, Rebel Spring by Judith St. George (165 p.)
Two friends, who live in Mendham, New Jersey, during the Revolutionary War, find themselves caughts up in the affairs of George Washington's army during the winter of 1779-1780. After a cruel beating by his master, Pike runs away to live with the troops at their winter camp in Jockey Hollow.

Five Smooth Stones, by Kristiana Gregory (109 pages)
In her diary a young girl writes about events surrounding the beginning of the American Revolution in Philadelphia in 1776.

My Brother, My Enemy, by Madge Harrah (137 pages)
Determined to avenge the massacre of his family, fourteen-year old Robert Bradford joins Nathaniel Bacon's rebel army in hopes of wiping out the Susquehanna Indians of Virginia.

Theo, by Barbara Harrison
The Nazis announce that all orphans are to be rounded up and sent to Germany. A 12 year-old puppeteer performs bravely on and off stage after joining theGreek resistance movement during World War II.

Torn Thread, by Anne Isaacs
12 year-old Eva and her family are forced to leave their comfortable home and move into a tiny room in a Jewish ghetto. Eva and her sister are taken from their home and placed into a Nazi work camp in Czechoslovakia.

Riddle of Penncroft Farm, by Dorothea Jensen (180 p.)
Lars Olafson's move to a far near Valley Forge brings him friendship with the ghost of an 18th century ancestor, who recounts for him his adventrues in that part of Pennsylvania during the American Revolution.

Printer's Apprentice, by Stephen Krensky
In 1735, in New York City, a young printer's apprentice learns about the importance of freedom of speech when the printer Peter Zenger is arrested and tried for writing articles criticizing the government.

Spies on the Devil's Belt, by Betsy Haynes (159 p.)
Fourteen-year old Jonathan has no family and decides to enlist in the Continental Army. He finds unexpected danger which force him to make some hard adult decisions.

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly; the Diary of Patsy a Freed Girl, by Joyce Hansen (201 p.) (Dear America)
Twelve-year old Patsy keeps a diary of the ripe but confusing time following the end of the Civil War and the granting of freedom to former slaves.

Light in the Storm, A Civil War Diary.., by Karen Hesse (Dear America) (167 p.)
This is the diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861. Mr. Lincoln has arrived in Washington at the onset of the Civil War.

Killing in Plymouth Colony, by Carol Otis Hurst
There had never been a murder in Plymouth Colony until John Newcomen had been shot, but by whom? The son of the governor, eleven-year old John Bradford rushes to the defense of an outsider who is accused of the murder.

Journey to the New World, by Kathryn Lasky (170 pages) (Dear America)
Diary of Remember Patience Whipple, Mayflower, 1620. After sixty-five days, the crew yell "Land ahoy." This was the new world.

A Line in the Sand, by Kathryn Lasky (Dear America)
Twelve-year old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant girl from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East side of New York city in 1903-1904).

All is Well, by Kristin Litchman (115 p.)
Emmy Frailey's family are Mormons living on a farm in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1885. Emmy's father must go into hiding to escape being arrested for having more than one wife.

Hollow Tree, by Janet Lunn
15 year-old Phoebe Olcott's cousin Gideon is hanged as a British spy. Phoebe finds a secret message left by Gideon, which contains the names of Loyalist families to be protected by the king's soldiers.

Picture of Freedom; Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, by Pat McKissack (Dear America)
In 1859, twelve-year old Clotee, a house slave who must conceal the fact that she can't read and write, records her experiences in her diary under a struggle to decide whether to escape to freedom.

After the War, by Carol Matas (YA) (116 p.)
After the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year old ruth is released. She risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

Greater than Angels, by Carol Matas (YA) (131 p.)
Anna Hirsch, her friends and family are rounded up and deported to a refugee camp in the south of France. Instead of being moved to Auschwitz or Buchenwald, the group is relocated to a tiny French village where the citizens have agreed to care for deported Jewish children.

Prisoner in Time, A Child of the Holocaust, by Pamela Melnikoff (Paperback, 142 pages)
In 1942, tired of hiding from the Nazis in a Pargue attic, a young Jewish man ventures out to an old cemetery, from which he travels back to the sixteenth century and witnesses another time of trouble for Czech Jews.

West to a Land of Plenty, by Jim Murphy (Dear America)
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian-American family (including a meddlesome little sister)and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, 14-year old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.

Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins, by Walter Dean Myers (137 pages)
A World War II solder relates his experiences beginning in England in 1944 through the battle of Normandy.

Dangerous Promise, by Joan Lowery Nixon (148 p.)(YA)
12-year old Mike Kelly and his friend Todd Blakely join the Union Army as musicians. They see the horrors of war firsthand in Missouri.

Will's Story: 1771, by Joan Lowery Nixon (162 pages)
Twelve-year old Will Pelham's father is the gaoler for the city of Williamsburg. Mr. Pelham took the job only a few months ago. Will still feels uncomfortable with the prisoners in the jail cells beneath his family's home.

Circle of Love, by Joan Lowery Nixon (167 p.)
Frances Mary Kelly, age 19, agrees to escort a group of orphans westward to find new homes. The journey is challenging and filled with emotion.

Serpent Never Sleeps, by Scott O'Dell (YA)
In the early 17th century, Serena Lynn, determined to be with the man she has loved since childhood, travels to the new world and comes to know the hardships of colonial life and the extraordinary Princess Pocahontas.

Island on Bird Street, by Uri Orlev
A Jewish boy is left on his own for months in a ruined house in the Warsaw Ghetto. He must learn all the tricks of survival under constantly life-threatening conditions.

Lady with the Hat, by Uri Orlev (YA)
Seventeen-year old Yulek is the only member of his immediate family to have survived the German concentration camps.

Man from the Other Side, by Uri Orlev (YA)
14-year old Marek and his grandparents shelter a Jewish man in the days before the Jewish uprising on the outskirts of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Standing in the Light, by Mary Osborne (184 p.)
The Captive Diary of Catherine Carey Logan begins in Delaware Valley, PA in 1763.

Pink and Say, by Patricia Polacco (48 p.)
Say Curtis describes his meeting with Pinkus Aylee, a black soldier, during the Civil War, and their capture by Southern troops.

Joseph, by Bonnie Pryor (170 p.)
The nation is on the brink of Civil War. Joseph's new stepfather is an abolitionist, whose stand against slavery causes trouble for Joseph

Luke, by Bonnie Pryor (163 p.)
Luke's father is a hardworking homesteader battling the harsh prairie lands of Iowa. Luke, a talented artist has different dreams. Luke's father says that artwork is a waste of time. News of gold is California take hold. Dreamers flock to California to seek their fotune.

Thomas, by Bonnie Pryor (150 p.)
Thomas' father joins General Washington's army in the war for independence. Thomas and his family are forced to flee when the British come. Thomas and a friend embark on a daring escapade against the Tories, Americans loyal to the British.

Escape to the Forest, by Ruth Radin ((90 pages)
Ten-year-old Sarah and her family must leave their home and live in a Jewish ghetto surrounded by barbed wire. Life is a nightmare of cold and hunger. Nazi soldiers kill Jews at will. Based on a true story.

Guns for General Washington, a story..., by Seymour Reit (98 p.)
Nineteen-year old Will Knox and his brother are frustrated with life under siege in George Washington's army.

Across the Lines, by Carolyn Reeder
Twelve-year old Edward lives in a plantation in the South during the Civil War. Edward's companion and servant, Simon, runs off to Freedom while Edward and his family flee to relatives in nearby Petersburg. Simon faces a lonely and hard life in the Union army and wonders if he'll find a place where he truly belongs.

Witch Child, by Celia Rees YA (261 p.)
In 1659, Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.

The Blue Door, by Ann Rinaldi (YA) (272 p.)
After fourteen-year old Amanda Videau witnesses a crime, she goes into hiding by disguising herself as a worker in her own great-grandfather's mill. She experiences the horrible working conditions of the mill and becomes torn between healing her family's wounds and fighting for women's rights.

A Break with Charity, a Story About the Salem Witch Trials, by Ann Rinaldi (257 p.)
Witch hunt panic in New England tears a town apart. The girls in the circle that Susanna English desparately wants to join, accuse alleged witches in the community.

Girl in Blue, by Ann Rinaldi (308 pages) (YA)
Sarah Louisa Wheelock has vowed never to allow a man to control her life. When Sarah's father promises her hand in marriage to their despicable neighbor Ezekiel Kunkle, Sarah knows that she has no other choice but to leave home. She disguises herself as a man and joins the Flint Union Grys, a regiment that becomes part of the Civil War.

In My Father's House, by Ann Rinaldi (307 p.)
Two sisters grow up during the Civil War. There is conflict both inside and outside the home.

Secret of Sarah Revere, by Ann Rinaldi (320 p.)
Paul Revere's daughter describes her father's rides adn the intelligence network of the patriot community prior to the American Revolution.

Touch Wood, a Girlhood in Occupied France, by Renee Roth-Hano (297 p.)
In this autobiographical novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Renee, a young Jewish girl and her family, flee their home and live on the edge of danger in Paris.

Fifth of March, a story of the Boston Massacre, by Ann Rinaldi (YA)
14-year old Rachel Marsh is an indentured servant in the Boston home of John and Abigail Adams. She is caught up in the colonists' uprising that escalates into the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1970.

Melitte, by Fatima Shaik (147 p.)
Set in Louisiana of the 1760s and 1770s, thirteen-year old Melitte is mistreated. She must decide whether to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm. All her life she has dreamt of freedom.

Faraway Home, by Marilyn Taylor (218 p.)
Karl and his sister rosa escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna to Northern Ireland on a Kindertransport. They are sent to Missisle Farm in county Down with other Jewish refugees. Here, they must adapt to a very different life, far from their parents and all that is familiar.

Hannah of Fairfield, by Jean Van Leeuwen (87 pages)
Hannah Perley of Fairfield, Connecticut is almost nine years old. Growing up means facing new challenges, great and small, from saving the life of a baby lamb to helping prepare her family to send her brother Ben to join the colonial soldiers in the American Revolution.

The Key is Lost, by Ida Vos (272 pages)
What would it be like to lose your home, your family, and even your name? Eva and Lisa Zilverstijn lose everything but each other when they go into hiding from the Nazis during World War II.

This New Land, by Clifton G. Wisler (124 p.)
10 year-old Richard Woodley describes his trip to the New World aboard the Mayflower and relates his first year among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.

Window of Time, by Karen Weinberg (166 p.)
Ben puts on an old jacket and boots that he finds while exploring the basement of his new home and suddenly finds himself transported back to the time of the Civil War.

Behind the Bedroom Wall, by Laura E. Williams (169 p.)(JPAP)
Thirteen-year old Korinna must decide whether to report her parents to her Hitler youth group when she discovers that they are hiding Jews in a secret space behind Korinna's bedroom wall.

My Canary Yellow Star, by Eva Wiseman (YA Paperback) (229 p.)
Young Marta lives in Budapest during the Second World War. She must leave school when Jews are barred from classes. Then her father is arrested and sent to dig ditches in Yugoslavia. Soon her family must leave their apartment.

Devil's Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen
Hannah resents the traditions of her Jewish heritage until time travel places her in a Jewish village in Nazi-occupied Poland.

The Gadget, by Paul Zindel - 183 pages
Thirteen-year old Stephen becomes caught in a web of secrecy and intrigue after he joins his father at Los Alamos. Stephen's father and other scientists are working on a secret project to end World War II. (Manhattan Project)